Join us as an MQ Project Analyst You'll be designing and building MQ systems to support the many applications using these systems, working with our Middleware MQ project team in a large and complex support environment You'll be supporting the platforms' operational stability and technology performance, including maintaining any system's utilities and tools provided by the platform This is an opportunity to learn a variety of new skills in a constantly evolving environment, working closely with feature teams to continuously enhance your development This role will involve occasional on call and out of hours support What you'll do As an MQ Project Analyst, you'll be supporting the team's activities to make sure that the platform integrity is maintained in line with technical roadmaps, while supporting change demands from domains or centres of excellence.
You'll be contributing to and supporting the delivery of a robust production management service for relevant infrastructure platforms.
In addition, you'll be contributing to the delivery of customer outcomes, innovation and early learning by contributing to test products and services to identify early on if they are viable and deliver the desired outcomes.
Your role will involve: Contributing to the platform risk culture, making sure that risks are discussed and understood at every step, and effectively collaborating to mitigate risk Designing, building and maintaining our MQ systems to customer requirements as well as supporting our application teams with testing and resolving issues Integrating our MQ systems with other software and linking them to external customers and partners Participating and seeking out opportunities to simplify the platform infrastructure, architecture, services and customer solutions, guarding against introducing new complexity Building relationships with platform, domain and relevant cross-domain stakeholders Making sure that controls are applied and constantly reviewed, primarily against SOX, to ensure full compliance to all our policies and regulatory obligations The skills you'll need To succeed in this role, you'll need to be a very capable communicator with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to colleagues, including management level.
You'll need a solid background working in an Agile or DevOps environment with continuous delivery and continuous integration.
IIB running on RedHat Linux and Solaris is desirable We'll also look to you to demonstrate: Strong experience of MQ infrastructure design, configuration, and delivery of MQ infrastructure on Z/os and, Unix as well as experience of MQ clustering, shared queues, pub/sub and AMS Experience of working with third party vendors, SSL certificates Knowledge of relevant industry standard toolsets and processes to drive up customer service within an IT environment An understanding of operational principles Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills